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by jtheory 11y ago
Why this, specifically? > I would NOT warn the end users about needing to upgrade People using your product are discussing it on review sites, on social media, with friends/family, etc.. If you silently give some of them a broken p
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by jtheory 11y ago
Patients Know Best, REMOTE-only. Full-time, with occasional exceptions. Working hours: within a few hours of GMT (current IRL span: Costa Rica to Bangalore). See my other posts for more depth on work-life balance (& hiring working paren
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by jtheory 11y ago
I married my college gf, whose parents live more than 9K miles from mine. This does indeed complicate life now that we have children, and as both sets of parents age.
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by jtheory 11y ago
I haven't properly read most of his material yet, but one thing that may be relevant for some children -- kids manage emotion, questions of agency and fairness, differently when they're younger. My wife and I taught our eldest dau
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by jtheory 11y ago
Yeah, this as well! Cultivate relationships with friends/family who have good taste, and kids 2 years older than yours or so. ;) This is pretty easy, actually... people also actively want to get rid of clothes rather than store them;
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by jtheory 11y ago
It's possible to set up encryption model where it will be particularly hard to sell data later -- this is one of the things we've spent a decent amount of time building in the company I work for, for this reason. No, we're n
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by jtheory 11y ago
The ships/words on screen all start with different letters. Once you type the first letter of a word, that one changes orange (and you have it finish it before your key presses will be recognized for other words). This also applies
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by jtheory 11y ago
I'm on FF current; no crashes through wave 14 or so (and died naturally). This laptop has Win7.
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by jtheory 11y ago
Note that to submit jobs, here's the link: http://europeremotely.com/submit_job.html (I started writing this as a question but found the answer myself in the footer links...) We're based roughly around London time
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by jtheory 11y ago
When I was 15 or so, a teacher asked us to bring in a song making a political statement. In class we traded and discussed them. The kid I traded with had brought in NWA's "Fuck Tha Police." I'd brought in Tom Lehrer&#x27
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by jtheory 11y ago
Yes, this. "The enemy" was just the men previously living normal lives and working normal jobs the previous year, just like you were, before they were bundled off to fight for their country. War is incredibly destructive to the f
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by jtheory 11y ago
Reminds me of the Johnny Appleseed story -- e.g., a lot of Americans grow up learning that he traveled far ahead of the settlers in North America planting apple seeds everywhere, so everyone would have apples -- the interesting twist is tha
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by jtheory 11y ago
Ideally share the thought here in some way; don't just give a mystery link.
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by jtheory 11y ago
I assumed for the first half it was going to turn out to be a psych experiment (and there were several other compsci students getting similar "contracts") -- especially as the hurdles he was jumping were clearly intentionally set
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by jtheory 11y ago
The most insidious problem with these kinds of models is that they are trying to model reality . Your example is modeling a real dog better than the sample you started with, but... what computer programs acts on a real, live dog, directl
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by jtheory 11y ago
Fun read. This reminds me of how "object-oriented" programming goes wrong for beginners. ...Not helped, alas, by all of the texts that thing it's helpful to demonstrate OO concepts by modeling things like "cat is a subc
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by jtheory 11y ago
I don't think I've ever worked on a project that deserialized untrusted Java objects; where does this come up? I suppose -- if you have a Java client for a (probably) EJB-based server; most of the cases where I imagine this sort o
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by jtheory 11y ago
My in-laws live in Kuala Lumpur, and are really struggling with the smoke; they're already not in the best of health. Next month we're going to basically evacuate my wife's parents and bring them to stay out of the smoke for
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by jtheory 11y ago
It's worth pointing out that anything with patient IDs (even though all personal info is removed) is still not really anonymous "safe" data, and should be treated carefully. I'm not sure what measures Mimic takes (beyond
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by jtheory 11y ago
Nulls can be particularly pernicious in Java because of auto-unboxing. E.g., imagine you got a NPE from this: String summary = getUserSummary( user.getId() ); ...you'd think "user" must be null, right? But it's
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by jtheory 11y ago
But -- after 6 months the parents' level of expertise is significantly higher. I have two kids, 3 and 6. The second was hard, but we knew what were getting into, largely, and how to survive it. The first was... rough. I'm not su
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by jtheory 11y ago
A sabbatical can be long (and is not "vacation time" or "sick leave") because by default it's unpaid. So it's in the developer's interest as well for the manager to figure out a way to reshape his/h
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by jtheory 11y ago
I see people all the time quite convincingly saying (with a friendly, disarming smile) "oh no, it's no problem at all!" when in fact it is a problem, they don't want to do whatever it is, internally they're distress
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by jtheory 11y ago
This is all very theoretical, since we don't know the situation. But the other possibility would be to "blow the whistle" anonymously. The chances of getting away with that still aren't great (if VW put some effort into
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by jtheory 11y ago
This is well-explained and fairly concise. It's a concept that could be much more rapidly explained in an intuitive way with a few interactive diagrams, or honestly a few animated gifs, though. The CAP theorem is one of those things th
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The Disappearance of Self in Japan(huffingtonpost.com)
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by jtheory 11y ago
I stop myself from slouching on long drives by adjusting the rearview mirror such that if I'm not sitting up straight, it won't show the back window correctly. I notice pretty quickly when I'm not seeing the full rear window
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by jtheory 11y ago
I may be missing some context here (didn't read the wp article you're linking). But evaluating farms based on the "economic activity" they produce just sounds all kinds of wrong. Californian farms produce an incredible
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by jtheory 11y ago
> no matter what you do, since you are white, your actions are of less value I'm saying, no matter what you do, your actions have the same value as anyone else's; but if on balance you've benefited from unjust systems, y
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by jtheory 11y ago
I don't understand how this is reacting to what I said...? I'm not saying he wasn't a hero. I'm saying he's coming from a different starting point; and that he himself explicitly said he wasn't doing what the

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